The Modern Jazz Quartet at Newport Jazz Festival Jul 3, 1959
Wolfgangs Vault (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Download for $9.98. Listen to The Modern Jazz Quartet performed at Newport Jazz Festival on July 3, 1959
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Steve Reich
LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
One of the nice things about having moved the global/galactic headquarters of LondonJazz to N1 is what King's Place can do for the life of the mind. Last night I polled up for an interview with Steve Reich hosted by the London Sinfonietta - they're cranking up the fundraising for a new Reich commission in 2011. And what was the 73-year young Reich talking about, with a pace, enthusiasm and verve which...
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Tuesday, 3 November, 2009
East Side Jazz Club (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
8.30 - 11.00pm £5 on the door Tony Coe (tenor sax & clarinet) John Horler (piano) Andrew Cleyndert (bass) Clive Fenner (drums) Tony Coe began his performing career with Humphrey Lyttelton’s band and in 1965 Count Basie offered him a place in the Basie Band sax section. His credits since then include the John Dankworth Orchestra, Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Band, Stan Tracey, Mike Gibbs,...
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Happy birthday, Dizzy!
Poéfrika (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
The trumpet pioneer of bop, Dizzy was one of a small group of people who defined an entire generation of music. That style featured his furious playing, alternating between infectiously simple and complex high speed phrases.He began studying the playing of Roy Eldridge. In 1937 he moved to New York and became a session player. In 1940 he met Charlie Parker in Kansas City. They developed bebop
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New Archival Sound Recordings Online via British Library: Unpublished Recordings from 80s-90s from Institute of Contemporary Arts
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
From the Announcement The British Library launches the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Talks from the 1980s online from this page via the British Library Sound Archive. Featuring [our emphasis] unpublished recordings of talks and debates with top cultural, artistic and political figures of the day, this latest addition to the JISC-funded Archival Sound Recordings website [...]
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5) Miles Davis and Lester Young
Do the Math (Free subscription) | 27/08/2009
Lewis Porter shared a wonderful story with me. After Porter’s Lester Young came out, Jackie McLean called him up. “Where is Miles Davis in this book?” McLean wanted to know. “Miles got a lot of stuff from Lester Young.” ---...
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Diary Of An Unelected Politician Who Just Happens To Run the Country.
Old Holborn (Free subscription) | 17/08/2009
Peter The Pussy Cat - Charlotte Raven The Observer Best Line Mandy, Minister For Everything Mandelson was on our screens more than Coronation Street - The Guardian This Pussycat knows exactly where you live - Roland White The Times Mandy's Missing Millions- James Cowling Bristol Evening Post (article no longer on line as it was critical of Peter Poppet promising £600m to Airbus and only delivering...
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Tuesday, 22 September, 2009
East Side Jazz Club (Free subscription) | 23/07/2009
8.30 - 11.00pm £5 on the door Stan Sulzmann (saxes) Liam Noble (piano) Mark Hodgson (bass) Clive Fenner (drums) Stan Sulzmann is without question one of the most highly respected musicians in the UK today, admired by musicians and audiences for his instantly recognisable sound, and boundless creative imagination, and is a source of inspiration to many of Britain's emerging young musicians. Sulzmann’s...
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Bird: The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve
MEDIAFIRE (Free subscription) | 18/07/2009
This 10 CD retrospective contains everything Bird recorded on the Verve label, including live tracks with Ella Fitzgerald. With nearly 2 hours of never-before-released music, there are 175 tracks in all, a 24 page booklet with photos and liner notes by Dizzy Gillespie. Personnel includes: Charlie Parker (alto saxophone); Ella Fitzgerald (vocals); Benny Carter, Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Clarke, Ben Webster,...
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50 great moments in jazz: The emergence of bebop
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 06/07/2009
Dismissed at the time as unlistenable and undanceable, bebop represented an outlet for imaginative, open-minded jazz musicians hoping to usher in a new age When bebop arrived in the early 40s, its musical subversiveness and underground status fascinated a small coterie of young hipsters. For some of the biggest stars of the New Orleans and swing phases that had preceded bop, however, it sounded like...
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Upcoming Jazz Releases | 7/7/09
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
Acoustic Ladyland - Living With A Tiger (Phantom ) Barry Miles - Sky Train (Wounded Bird ) Cab Calloway - Hi-De-Ho Man: 1930-1933 (Rev-Ola ) Carmen Lundy - Solamente (Afrasia Prod. ) Charlie Parker - Great Quartets & Quintets (Disconforme ) Cherry / Coleman / Dorham / Giuffre - Lenox Jazz School Concert August 29 1959 (Disconforme ) Chris McGregor - Up To Earth (Fledg'Ling Uk ) Clifford Brown -...
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FESTIVAL/CRUISE: Stanford Jazz Festival Returns for Its 38th Year
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 27/06/2009
At the age of 84, James Moody may be the oldest musician performing at the 38th annual Stanford Jazz Festival, which he opens on Friday at Dinkelspiel Auditorium. But there's not a player on the festival's program with a more youthful spirit. In a career stretching back to the mid-1940s, when he first gained attention in Dizzy Gillespie's ridiculously talented bebop orchestra (his bandmates included...
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KENNY CLARKE & FRANCY BOLAND - Jazz Is Universe
Boomkat: Just arrived (Free subscription) | 16/06/2009
KENNY CLARKE & FRANCY BOLAND Jazz Is Universe REARWARD JAZZ / RELATED LP
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CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Bill Kirchner's Recommended Big Band List
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 20/03/2009
For his advanced composing and arranging students, saxophonist, composer, arranger and educator Bill Kirchner recently compiled a list of recommended big band CDs recorded since 1955. Kirchner teaches at The New School in New York City. Bill agreed to let me share the list with Rifftides readers, who may find some of their favorites but not others...
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Kirchner's List
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 20/03/2009
For his advanced composing and arranging students, saxophonist, composer, arranger and educator Bill Kirchner recently compiled a list of recommended big band CDs recorded since 1955. Kirchner teaches at The New School in New York City. Bill agreed to let...